Oral Marley

from the Los Angeles Post-Examiner Safeguarding Bob Marley with “So Much Things to Say” BY STEPHEN COOPER In reviewing Roger Steffens’s latest book, So Much Things to Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley, Hua Hsu asserts in The New Yorker that Steffens’s contribution...

Ass-smoke

from Gizmodo “Blowing Smoke Up Your Ass” Used to Be Literal by Terynn Boulton When someone is “blowing smoke up your arse” today, it is a figure of speech that means that one person is complimenting another, insincerely most of the time, in...

Money Moon

from Nautilus The Moon Is Full of Money Capitalism in space. BY POPE BROCK / ILLUSTRATIONS BY VEDANTI SIKKA I was slung in my favorite deck chair, drink in hand, having a gawk at the night sky. Andromeda, Pisces … I trawled the constellations, mind abandoned,...